Which scientist developed the general theory of relativity, published in 1915?
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Albert Einstein presented the general theory of relativity in 1915, describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime.
Marie Curie was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Which two?
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Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry outright.
Who wrote ‘On the Origin of Species’, published in 1859?
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Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ set out the theory of evolution by natural selection in 1859.
Which scientist set out three laws of motion in the ‘Principia’ of 1687?
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Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) contains his three laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
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Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a Penicillium mould killed bacteria on a culture plate at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Which Italian astronomer used a telescope to discover four moons of Jupiter in 1610?
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Galileo Galilei observed Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto in January 1610; they are still called the Galilean moons.
Who developed the first successful smallpox vaccine in 1796?
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Edward Jenner used material from cowpox to protect against smallpox in 1796; ‘vaccine’ comes from the Latin for cow, vacca.
What was Marie Curie’s nationality by birth?
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Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1867, and later moved to Paris to study.
Which English physicist wrote the bestselling book ‘A Brief History of Time’?
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Stephen Hawking’s ‘A Brief History of Time’ was published in 1988 and became an international bestseller.
Gregor Mendel laid the foundations of genetics through experiments on which plants?
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Mendel crossed thousands of garden pea plants in his monastery garden in Brno, publishing his results in 1866.
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